Artist inspiration: Mariah Robertson

At college we were given a big list of artists we should look into, one of those artists was Mariah Robertson. I instantly liked Mariah's vibrant but dark images.

  

Gladiola Window RGB #3 & #1 [2007]

I could tell that Mariah has somehow manipulated the Red, Green and Blue layers of her image. There might be a technique to do this in photochemical processing but I knew this effect was also possible through Photoshop.

Here is my attempt made from a photo I took today while expreimenting in Young's class:

In fact, I am rather well aquainted with playing with the three colour 'channels' of an image.

I've used it in graphic design:

I entered this design to be printed on a t-shirt. Sadly I didn't win the competition. I'd like to try screen printing this some time maybe. This imsage was made along the same premise of every image on this blog.

A profile picture of mine and a concept album cover for a friend's band; Tescos Chainstore Massacre.

The two images above were made by warping the colour channels rather than rotating them.

A publicity photo of Chris James, musician and a maths based graphic design made by me.

Rather than being rotated or warped, the colour channels in these images have been scaled subtley to give a red and blue edge to images. This mimics the refraction of light through a lens as white light is split into the colour spectrum. Red and blue are at opposing sides of the spectrum.